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History of Science & Medicine

Adolescence: Opportunities and Challenges
Series: Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychology
Consideration of the problems facing young people today.

Basic and Applied High Pressure Biology
Papers on high pressure biology, now making important advances in biological and medical industries, including food.

Being There
Being There is a collection of photographic portraits of, and interviews with, NYU medical students who volunteered in the New York City Medical Examiner's morgue following 9/11. Dr. Barry Goldstein, who was the Master Scholars Artist-in-Residence during the 2001-2002 academic year, took the photos and conducted the interviews. The volume includes a foreword by Charles Hirsch M.D., the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, who ran the massive effort to identify remains.

Captain of Death (paperback)
A comprehensive examination of TB. CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award 1998.

Captain of Death
A comprehensive examination of the history of TB.

Cariology for the Nineties
Conference overview of current research into the etiology, pathogenesis and prevention of dental caries.

An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform

An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform
This book constitutes Volume II of a two-volume annotated catalogue (M-Z) on the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform.

An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform
The final volume in a comprehensive catalog of rare books dealing with "popular medicine" in early America.

A Catalog of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform

Changing Careers A Ten Year Demonstration of a Developmental Life-Span Approach
The history of a ten-year project on adult career counselling.

Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
Kim Pelis uses a wide range of French and Tunisian archival materials and a close reading of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle's scientific papers and philosophical treatises to explore the relationship of science and medicine to society and culture in the first third of the twentieth century.

Cold Fusion
An account of the cold fusion debate, the Pons/Fleischmann cold fusion claim, and its aftermath.

Developmental Approaches to Prevention and Intervention
Series: Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychology
Essays facilitating a primary goal of Developmental Psychopathology--the interplay between research and practice.

Developmental Perspectives on Depression
Series: Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychology

Disorders and Dysfunctions of the Self
Series: Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychology
Comparative studies of normal self-development and atypical psychopathological populations contribute to an understanding of normal development of the Self.

Emotion, Cognition, and Representation
Series: Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychology
Exploration of issues relating to emotional development in children and its influence on behaviour, both normal and abnormal.

Genetic Regulation of Placental Development and Immunology
Series: Trophoblast Research
Edited papers presented at the 13th Rochester Trophoblast Conference on the Placenta.

Handbook of Self-Determination Research
Papers addressing the role which human motivation plays in a wide range of specialties including clinical psychology, internal medicine, sports psychology, social psychology, and educational psychology.

Handbook of Self-Determination Research (paperback)
Papers addressing the role which human motivation plays in a wide range of specialties including clinical psychology, internal medicine, sports psychology, social psychology, and educational psychology.

Health and Wealth
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
Essays seeking to bring an historical perspective to bear on today's national and international policy concerns and to present original historical research that challenges conventional assumptions and viewpoints.

Health and Zionism
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
An exploration of the major conflicts and historic events that shaped the current Israeli health care system.

Health Care Reform
An examination of the moral principles and institutional arrangements that will be needed to drive any new health care reform inititive.

HIV, Perinatal Infections and Therapy
Series: Trophoblast Research
Papers on the role of the placenta in HIV and other perinatal infections.

High Pressure Biology and Medicine
An extensive collection of edited papers concerning basic and applied high-pressure biology.

History and the Disciplines
A collection of essays from some of the world's leading intellectual historians, representing an international spectrum of research into the history of philosophy, intellect, science and music.

John W. Thompson
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History

Marriage of Convenience
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
Offers a nuanced analysis of the interaction between the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division and Mexico's Departamento de Salubridad Pública as they jointly promoted public health through campaigns against yellow fever and hookworm disease, organized cooperative rural health units, and educated public health professionals in North American universities and Mexican training stations.

The Maternal Fetal Interface
Series: Trophoblast Research
Volume 12 of the world-renowned Trophoblast Research series, devoted to placental science.

The Mechanization of the Heart:
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two seventeenth-century scholars William Harvey and Rene Descartes on the beart and circulation of the blood; Fuch traces the reception of the two views in the medical literature of the time and the influence both views had.

Medicine's Moving Pictures
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.

Medicine's Moving Pictures (paperback)
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.

Models and Integrations
Series: Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychology

Molecular Biology and Cell Regulation of the Placenta
Series: Trophoblast Research

Neurology and Neurosurgery
An overview of practice and theory in both neural specialties, encouraging a broader therapeutic approach to problems such as movement disorders and intractable pain.

Partnerships in Healthcare
Articles suggesting a new approach to working relationships in the health care system.

Philosophy, Religion and Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
Studies reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of science, philosophy and religion in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis
Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis tells the stories of six individuals (Laennec, Koch, Biggs, von Pirquet, Frost, and Waksman), each of whom made significant contributions to their own respective medical fields, as well as to the overall battle to conquer tuberculosis.

The Placenta from Implantation to Trophoblastic Disease:
Series: Trophoblast Research

Placental Molecules in Hemodynamics, Transport and Cellular Regulation
Series: Trophoblast Research

Placental Signals Autocrine and Paracine Control of Pregnancy
Series: Trophoblast Research
Papers focus on regulative signaling to, from and within the placenta.

Polio
The story of polio in the words of its victims, doctors, and research scientists concerned with the means of eradicating it.

Polio (paperback)

The Politics of Vaccination
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
A detailed examination of the political forces and events that shaped smallpox vaccination policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland during the nineteenth century.

Post-War Mothers
Women's experience of childbirth in the mid-twentieth century, revealed in their own words.

Presidential Disability

Public Health and the Risk Factor
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
A look at how the concept of "risk factor" has influenced public health and preventive medicine, with an emphasis upon the study of heart disease.

Public Health and the Risk Factor (paperback)
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
A look at how the concept of "risk factor" has influenced public health and preventive medicine, with an emphasis upon the study of heart disease.

Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England
An investigation of the role which the English book trade played in an important transitional period in early modern medicine.

Research Link Energy 7 - out of print

Research Link Energy 8 - out of print

Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930:
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s.

The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714:
Drawing upon a myriad of primary and secondary historical sources, The Royal Doctors: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession.

A Scientist's Tools for Business
Volume providing an invaluable link between basic scientific principles and their application in the business world.

Shaping the College Experience Outside the Classroom
Study of the employment programs devised for students in America.

Shifting Boundaries of Public Health
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
New perspectives on the history of twentieth century public health in Europe.

Strongly Coupled Plasma Physics

Transforming Ideas:
A series of essays celebrating the University of Rochester's sesquicentennial, highlighting its significant contributions in disciplines from medicine to art history, chemistry to business, political science to music.

Transforming Ideas:

Understanding Purpose
Series: North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy
A collection of essays investigating key historical and scientific questions relating to the concept of natural purpose in Kant's philosophy of biology.

The Value of Health
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
A multilayered analytical study that situates the Pan American Health Organization in a complex and shifting historical context and examines the internal dynamics of the organization in a probing critical fashion.

Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
A re-examination of the role of charity and treating venereal disease in public hospitals in early-modern London.

Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist 1880-1938
A biography of a seminal figure in the fight against tuberculosis and other public health diseases.

The Workers' Health Fund in Eretz Israel
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
The first study to research the history of the health funds established by Jewish laborers in Israel.